techPlate 639 · Chicago, United States

Willis Tower

Bundled tubes of steel, because a city of architecture wanted the world's tallest again.

1973 · Bruce Graham & Fazlur Rahman Khan / SOM · North America

The chamber score

First Construction (in Metal)

John Cage · 1939

Percussion as a façade.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The former Sears Tower, a landmark of structural engineering.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Willis Tower through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Willis Tower was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.